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How One Florida Biologist And His More Than 150 Animals Fared During Irma

NPR
Published September 11, 2017 at 12:45 PM EDT
Joe Wasilewski, pictured here in 2012, works with a captured Nile crocodile, caught near his Homestead, Fla., home. Wasilewski survived Hurricane Andrew in 1992, and decided to stay this time around and face Irma. (J Pat Carter/AP)
Joe Wasilewski, pictured here in 2012, works with a captured Nile crocodile, caught near his Homestead, Fla., home. Wasilewski survived Hurricane Andrew in 1992, and decided to stay this time around and face Irma. (J Pat Carter/AP)

Joe Wasilewski is in Homestead, Florida. He was there in 1992, survived Hurricane Andrew and decided to stay this time around and face Irma.

Wasilewski is a herpetologist with more than 150 animals that he takes to lectures and rents out to TV shows — alligators, snakes, lizards and more. He joins Here & Now‘s Robin Young to talk about how he and the animals are doing.

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